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B. T. PENNIG.

MAIL BOX IN HOUSE WALLS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB-7,1920.

Patentpd July 18 INVEJVTOR:

w ATTORNEY.

XMEEJQ'ARB' .ll'illiihliifie, 93*" Evil FPAUL, MINNESDTPFL, ASSIGNOR 'E'O WENN-GREG MFG. {5%, OF ST. IBAUL, MIE'ETESQTA, A CQFARTHERSHEP GONSISTING F JOEL E. GREg w ESTHER SQIE'HIA ETBAED, AND HIMSELF.

Snecification oi Letters Patent.

Patentecl July 18,

To (1]! whom 112 may concern Be it known ihat l. BERNARD 'l. PENNIG, .a citizen or the United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and Stole of li'linncsoie. have invented 23 new and useful Mail lion in i'l ouse Walls of which the following is e specification.

My invention relates to mail boxes at residences and Mikes; and the object is to provide a mail hm; concealed in any snitehle part of a wall of a building where it will. expose the mail dropped in the box by the mail carrier to the occupants of the house and he there Within easy reach Without going out of the house to if any mail has arrived.

liiifh this and other objects in View the invention consists of the pores and arrangements illustrated in she eccompenying; (ire *ing in which:

' Fig. l is an elevation of the door and frame through which the mail is delivered inlo a building anal the adjacentportion or the wall 01 the building. Fig. 2 on do ration of the frame and door and adjacent portion of the inner side of the well of almihling at the point where the mail is re eeiverl into the room.v Fin". 3 is a verfiical section on the line 3---3 in Figures 1 21ml 2. i

llie'l'erriniz lo the drewin by reference numorals. 4 designates the stniii'lirigs 5 iihe laih, ll lxhe plastering l the sheeting and 8 the siding of a house Well in which my in1- 35 proved mail box is inserted.

9 is the mail box proper am} is preferably anode of galvanized sheet iron. li; constitutes a. vertically elongated pocket say aboef: eighteen inches deep. seven inches wirle sncl practically filling lieliveen the sheeting and the lash of on oi'iiim-iry house well. The box is secured b screws l(l-ll to brackets 152,13 fixed to the sl'ieeting. lt is also soldered. or otheswise secured to metelyiremes l4 and 15, which are roughed in int-o the Wall during, its erection, and have finishing door frames afterward secured to them.

The lower end of the box has an incline l6 and in its bottom 1'? eportnres 18 to al low circulation of air and to prevent accumule'eion of dirt in box. 19 and 21') are ii :linecl guards designed. to prevent steel-- of the mail by the so celleci wire Eln, gr m fchieves.

Secured to the frame by screws '23 is so a door frame 22, to which a cloor 23 is hinged at 24 and provided with a suitable catch 25 for holding it closed. Said door may preferably have a glass panel 26 through which to see if there is mail in the box withoutopening the door.

The frame 14 is formed Wlilh secrets 2?, into which project from a door frame 28 studs 29, which are secured in said sockets by screws 30 having-their heads Within the es mail box, In the frame 28 is hinged by concealed pintles 31 a lid or cloor 32,, having a weight 33 to hold it normally closed with its rabbeted edge 34 against the lower edge of the frame 28. When the door is thus closed its lower edge 36 projects slightly outward beyond the frame so as to guide away rain water if the door happens to he exposed to e rein storm If the frame 28 in some rare case is much exposed to rein it may also be protected by a cap 8? fixed close above. it.

'lhe screws 30 are inserteol by a hand reecliecl upwardly through the hoxfrom ihe door frame 15 and can films not he re hed and removed through the door iii ne 3 When letters or carols or similar articles are dropped inio the box they will lee-n against the inclined face 15 so as not to be. crushed or unduly bent by heevieror harder articles like magazines, merchandise or he like. The incline or bevel 16 also tends so make it impossible for persons to mke out letters from outside by means of'wiresor gum sticks. 7

From the above description ii will be imolerstoo d that I provide a mail box which may be inserted in any convenient piece in a, well either during the erection of a. house or by proper operation any time el fier the 9 5 house is built. As the box is not in. the door of the house nor necessarily near lfne lo ir it is invisihle from the street. The box maynlso he made large cnonghso hold the mail {for several days if the owner happens to be absent.

In' depositing the mail the mail carrier simply presses or pushes the door-32 open. and drops she mail in, and he ibhereby' places the meilin sight of Lhe owner so that the 31 5 letter ceiino'iz easily overlook it for any length Ofxilllflfi, as is ol'iaen the case with mail boxes which dojnot isplsy' 'the. mail to the inside of the house, but rather to the outside where it tempts mail thieves and is not noticed by the owner when he leaves the house or returiis home in the darl What l claim is:

l. The combination with double walls, of a mail boa: mounted between said walls and covered therel'iy, and an anchoring bracket securecbto the mail box and one of the wallson the inside thereof, one'ol' said walls and the mail box having coincident inlet openings and the other of said walls and mail box having coincident outlet openings.

5. The combination with double walls, of a mail box mounted between said walls and covered thereby, one of said walls and the mail box havin coincident inlet openings and the other of said walls and mail box having coincident outlet openings, said mail box having at its openings marginal frames extending into the openings in the walls.

3. The combination with double walls, of a sheet metal mail box mounted between said walls and covered thereby one of said walls and the mail box having coincident inlet openings and the other of said walls and the mail box having coincident outlet openings, marginal frames for the openings in the mail boa: extending into the openings in the walls, and means securing one of the marginal frames to the mail box from the inside hereof. i v i A mail box having an inlet opei'iing in one of its sides and an outlet opening in its other side, saidopenings being vertically spaced one above the other and the latter bang vertically spaced above the bottom of the mail box, a downwardly inclined guard on the side of the mail box having the inlet opening and located between said openings, and a downwardly inclined guard on the side of the vmail box having the outlet opening and located therebelow.

A mail box having in one of its-sides an inlet opening and an outlet opening in its other side, said openings being vertically spaced the one above the other and the latter being vertically spaced above the bottom of the mail box, a downwardly inclined guard on the side of the mail box having the inlet opening and located between said openings, and adownwardly inclined guard on the side of the mail box having; an outlet opening and located therebelow, the bottom oithe mail box at the side thereof having the inlet opcning being downwardly inclined. and the other side thereof being horizontal (5. A mail box having in one of its sides an inlet opening and in its other side an outlet opening said openings being vertically spaced the one above the other, said outlet openingbeing vertil-all y spared above the bottom of the mail box a downwardly inclined guard on the side of the mail. boa I having the inlet opening and located between said openings, and a downwardly inclined. guardon the side of the mail box having the outlet opening and located therehelow, the bottom of the mail box at the side thereof having the inlet opening being downwardly'inclined and the other side thereof:

being horizontal and perforated.

ln testimony.whereof I affix in y signature.

BERNARD T. Pltlhlel'lul 

